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- Pedagogic Pearls
- Technology Tips
- DVDs of the Month
- Calendar Highlights
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library collection online,
by subject, title or author at the
Gratz Tuttleman Library.
(Look for the SERC designation in the call #)
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Compiled and designed
by
Bonni Kraus,
Educational Resources and
Communication Associate,
in
partnership with
Elana Rivel,
Director of
Educational
Resource
Development
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Summer Resources
1. Gratz College offers both online and on-campus summer
classes.
2. Improve your Hebrew skills: An excellent place to begin is with a free course given by Read Hebrew America.
3. Or try one of these online courses on many Jewish topics.
4. Check out the 2010 Summer Program Roundup compiled by JESNA.
For your students, their families, your children, and grandchildren:
1. It's always a great time for Jewish reading - but during the summer, when children join our Summer Jewish Reading Club by reading three Jewish books and either sending in the form or filling in the online form they will earn a free Rita's Water Ice!
Speaking of our reading programs, The Jerusalem Post generously donated reading materials for our
Jewish Book Read-In Passover packages. They are currently selling educational
posters about Israel - see them here!
2. Want a site where parents and children can have a fun time with activities, stories, games, crafts and more? Visit Akhlah, BabaGaNewz and Nurit Reshef's Funland.
3. Learning about the parashah hashavuah (in cartoon form) at G-dcast is both informative and entertaining. Tune in every week!
4. There are many funny Jewish videos online. For example, here is an animated cartoon, Unholy Jewish History that presents 4,000 years of Jewish history in four minutes.
Do you have any favorite Jewish online videos?
Share them
with us so we can let others know!
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Pedagogic Pearls
Family members can be the best dugma'ot (examples)
for all-season lifelong Jewish learning! Let the children
and teens in your family see you reading Jewish books, attending synagogue and looking for Jewish neighborhoods at your vacation destination, and putting a Jewish perspective on summer adventures.
Get many more ideas from The Summer Guide for Jewish Families by Barbara Mollin Lerner.
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Technology Tips
 CREATE YOUR OWN BLOG!
Summer's coming - and with it a bit more free time. Why not write your own blog - and give it a Jewish viewpoint!
Here is a site to get you started.
As always, feel free to contact us if you need a little personal assistance.
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 Great Summer Reading:
By
Fire, By Waterby Mitchell James Kaplan
One Book, One Jewish Community's
2010 - 2011 Feature Book Selection |
DVDs of the Month
Summer is a great time for watching Jewish-themed DVDs! Here are some suggestions:
NEW! THE BAND'S VISIT -
V-5118  A fading Egyptian
police band arrives in Israel to play at the Arab Cultural Center. When
they take the wrong bus and end up in a desolate Israeli village, the
two different cultures realize the universal bonds of love, music, and
life. This is a charming and multiple award-winning DVD!
For ages 14
- adult, one and a half hours.
In Hebrew, Arabic, and English, with
English subtitles.
NEW! WALTZ WITH BASHIR - V-5119
Winner of multiple
awards, this animated documentary is a profoundly powerful and moving
chronicle of the after-effects of the war in Lebanon upon an Israeli
veteran.
For adults, one hour, 30 minutes. In Hebrew, with English
subtitles.
 KEEPING UP WITH THE STEINS - V-5072.
A hilarious comedy of three generations of an American Jewish family colliding at
preparations for a boy's Bar Mitzvah.
For ages 11+, one hour, 40 minutes.
LIKE A FISH OUT OF WATER - V-5086
A romantic comedy about a new oleh (immigrant) from Argentina - secular,
aspiring actor and single father- who needs to
improve his Hebrew. His teacher is a young religious woman who hates
her pupil and his career
choice, and whose mother is pressuring her to marry.
For ages 12+, 50 minutes. In Hebrew, with English subtitles.
 THE PRINCE OF EGYPT - V-5073
It doesn't have to be near Pesah for the entire family to enjoy this epic adventure that tells the story of Moses and the Israelites in Egypt.
For all ages, one hour, 15 minutes.
Coming soon: A Time of Favor
To borrow these, or any of our DVDs, videos, or books,
contact Bonni Kraus.
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